#403 Avital Schreiber Levy - Modern Feminism is Ruining Women’s Lives

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🗓️ 20 February 2026

⏱️ 106 minutes

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Avital Schreiber Levy is a wife, mother of five, author, and founder of 'Hi Fam' - a YouTube channel and podcast that supports couples and parents. Avital shares her journey growing up in London and Jerusalem, living in the USA, and choosing to raise her family in Israel. The conversation covers how parenting shapes culture, why the West is experiencing declining birth rates, and how feminism, individualism, and the self-esteem movement have impacted marriage and motherhood. Avital discusses the balance between freedom and tradition, the crisis in modern marriage, and why family is the most meaningful project of our lives.

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0:00.0	What's up, ladies and gentlemen?
0:01.7	Welcome back to the Real Talk with Zubi podcast. Today we're going to be having another amazing conversation. Today's guest is Avital Schreiber Levy. She is a mom of five. She is the author of the book Reclaim Play. And she is also the host of the YouTube channel, High Fam. Welcome to the show, Avital. How you doing? Zubi, it's so good to be here. Thank you so much for having me.
0:23.9	It's an absolute pleasure.
0:24.9	So I've done a brief intro there, but for my listeners, please introduce yourself.
0:29.5	Okay, thank you. So my mission is to help people create strong family cultures.
0:35.0	And part of the reason I think I was drawn to that work and my story through
0:38.7	life is that I'm the lucky recipient of a strong family culture. I'm the youngest of six and I grew up
0:44.8	in a traditional modern Orthodox Jewish household. I've lived on three different continents and I've
0:50.8	seen a lot of different cultural influence over family. And I also have a
0:56.0	background in design. So I think a lot about how to solve problems and how to create efficiencies
1:00.3	and how to create a smooth and beautiful and elegant living environment and how to apply design
1:06.0	thinking to relationships to society to our lives. And so yeah, that's what I do. I founded
1:13.5	Ha-Fam shortly after I became a mom. About 15 years ago I had my first child and a few
1:20.2	years in I became really obsessed learning everything I could about parenting and I
1:23.5	just started sharing what I was learning and trying to distill key points.
1:29.1	And I moved to America with my husband for his residency and fellowship.
1:33.5	And I saw a very, very different family culture than the one I was used to, first in the UK and then in Israel.
1:39.9	And that really spiked a lot of kind of cultural awareness and societal messages about parenting and marriage and motherhood and all of that good stuff.
1:48.5	So in a nutshell, that's my story.
1:53.1	Awesome.
1:53.7	Well, I definitely want to talk a lot about culture because I think that culture is upstream of pretty much everything.
1:59.6	I think so many issues that we see in societies
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